Definition of civil

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Civil (a.) Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.

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Christian :: Christian (a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
Ill-bred :: Ill-bred (a.) Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv..
Conge :: Conge (n.) The customary act of civility on any occasion; a bow or a courtesy.
Civicism :: Civicism (n.) The principle of civil government.
Incline :: Incline (v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility..
Visitor :: Visitor () One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship..
Mense :: Mense (n.) Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility.
Unmannerly :: Unmannerly (adv.) Uncivilly; rudely.
Officeholder :: Officeholder (n.) An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman..
Dixie :: Dixie (n.) A colloquial name for the Southern portion of the United States, esp. during the Civil War..
Civil :: Civil (a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state..
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) That which is established; as: (a) A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; with which one is fitted out; also, any office or place of business, with its fixtures;
Actuary :: Actuary (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally..
Polity :: Polity (n.) The form or constitution of the civil government of a nation or state; the framework or organization by which the various departments of government are combined into a systematic whole.
Police :: Police (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison..
Jurisconsult :: Jurisconsult (n.) A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.
Neglect :: Neglect (v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers..
Semibarbarian :: Semibarbarian (n.) One partly civilized.
Incapacitate :: Incapacitate (v. t.) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify..
Conge :: Conge (n.) To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.
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